We’re All in This Together: Planning and Leading a Retreat for Teaching Librarians: Anna Litten

The shift from bibliographic instruction to information literacy has not been
easy on instruction librarians. Librarians, administrators, professors and students have all struggled as we redevelop existing library instruction programs
and bring the library’s teaching mission into line with the Information Literacy
Competency Standards for Higher Education adopted by the Association of
College and Research Libraries in 2000. Appropriate planning to ease the transition and change in our library instruction programs will have a far-reaching
impact on our ability to be effective teachers, leaders and information literacy
advocates. In this article, I will discuss the bumps in the road as one library
moves towards a student-centered information literacy program, and how we
as a staff devised strategies for facing change.